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Thursday, September 8, 2011

a leisurely labor day

it's high time i update you all (if there really is anyone out there reading this sad, sorry excuse of a blog...) about what has been going on in my life.
you thought you had seen the last of me after i got home from jerusalem... bahahahaha!
i'm back.

other than the constant ebb and flow of daily life (consisting mainly of getting up, running errands for mom, checking stuff off of the mile-long to do list that she leaves on the counter for me... and possibly getting in the shower before everyone gets home from school...) we have managed to have a few adventures here in little ol' nampa. crazy thought huh?

my sister and i went camping before labor day - actually we were commissioned to head up there earlier in the week so that no one would take our spot! but the parents actually let us go... alone!
*gasp!*
we did have one steak knife to protect us.
i'm pretty sure the mosquitoes were terrified of two young, knife-wielding girls.

lost lake.

but we found it!

what camping trip is complete without a fire dance?

i always knew she had magical powers.

dinner is on!

to be fair, it did make the fire nice and toasty...

hobo dinners.

and camping.

my summer is now complete.

we got home, i ran down to salt lake for one of my best-friend's-in-the-whole-wide-world's-wedding...

cheaters... they were all wearing 3 inch heels.

of course, i wore flats.

...and then back to twin falls to see my cousin's daughter get baptized!

the rest of the family met me there, and then we cruised back on home, and back up to lost lake!

but this time we came with reinforcements. (not just the steak knife...)

it was noon and still cold.

so we went on a walk and ran from sunny spot to sunny spot.

feel the warmth!

good morning world!!!

peace.

calm.

tranquility.

i swear this stump is gonna collapse any second...

and don't forget the cliff jumping!

now after all that fun, i might just be ready to pack it all back up and head back to school.

our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. it is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
we ask ourselves, who am i to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? actually, who are you NOT to be?
you are a child of god. your playing small doesn't serve teh world. there's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. we are all meant to shine, as children do. we are born to make manifest the glory of god that is within us.
it's not just in some of us, it's in everyone.
and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. as we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
marianne williamson (21st century spiritual leader)

ya wanna find somethin?

ain't it the truth!

don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life. ~bertolt brecht

to be nobody but yourself - in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. ~e.e. cummings

life is pretty simple: you do some stuff. most fails. some works. you do more of what works. if it works big, others quickly copy it. then you do something else. the trick is the doing something else. ~leonardo da vinci

in three words, i can sum up everything i've learned about life: it goes on. ~robert frost

fortune and love befriend the bold. ~ovid

don't worry if you have built your castles in the air. they are where they should be. now put the foundations under them. ~henry david thoreau

there is nothing more attractive than a nice smile.

~charles m. schulz

even if you cannot sing well, sing. ~rebbe nachman

when you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside. ~wayne dyer

carry yourself like a queen and you'll attract a king.

make room for the new you. ~edward w. smith

i read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. it never crossed my mind that that person could be me. ~anna quindlen

write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. ~ralph waldo emerson

you look up at the sky and you cry for a star! you know you'll never get it... and then one night you look down - and there it is - shining in your hand! ~lizzie curry "the rainmaker"